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    WiFi Wifi to tv

    Hi, i don't want to stream from the internet, I just want to view my laptop screen on the tv via wifi to save me plugging an hdmi cable between to two. Is there a gadget to do this for me. Apologies for sounding like a dork.
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    Phone cuts off internet

    Hi pilgrims. For the last few days when I answer the phone my internet connection goes down. Anyone had this and know what the cause is. Cheers
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    Iplayer etc abroad

    I was Ireland a few weeks ago. Sitting about late at night I thought I'd see if there was anything worth watching on all the Player sites. What's the bloody point of them, every one of them said not allowed to view outside the UK. Bloody useless.
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    Changing sky+ box

    Hi pilgrims i've got the old white plus box but i've been given a nearly new sky+hd box. I suppose it's not just a matter of unplugging the old one and plugging in the new one. Help would be appreciated. Also if I can, what can I do with the numerous programs still on the old box. many thanks
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    Hard drive failure 'imminent'

    Hi pilgrims Booting up my lappy this morning. Before windows started this message appeared: "Smart disk diagnostics suggested that hard drive 1 faces imminent failure, back up data and run checkdisk" Is there anything to really worry about, I turned the lappy off straight away, didn't want to...
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    Prostate Cancer

    While it's father's day. Can i urge all of our male members to go to the doctor if they have ANY problems with their wee or have pains in the groin area for a check up. i've just been through a year of anxiety and treatment for prostate cancer, hopefully it's been sorted. if caught early, before...
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    Windows 7 32bit on 64bit laptop

    Hi Last week I was in Staples where I saw a laptop for sale someone had stolen the hard drive so it was reduced in price. I managed to negotiate to less than half price. A while ago my Lappy went belly up so thought I'd just put the hard drive from that into the new one. I did that and all...
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    Phone Unlocking Unlock HTC Wildfire

    Hi pilgrims I've been off DW for a while, been sick. My sister has given me a Wildfire on Tesco (T-Mobile carrier). I've looked through this forum for unlocking it. I been on the links given for unlock codes. That's fine. However, they all say if when you put the wrong sim in and the insert code...
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    Great Site

    I've just been trawling DW, going back months, looking at sections I wouldn't normally use. I'm amazed at the amount of tips I've found from our brilliant members. I'd just like to confirm, what a f**king brilliant site DW is.
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    Foxflag

    I just found this, it's great. It puts a little flag in the address bar to tell you where the server is. If you left click it shows a map where it is and if you right click it has a dropdown with a host of options including 'whois' https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flagfox/ Anyone...
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    What a knob!

    I've been decorating last couple of days. Pulled the telly out, behind it there is the Sky+ cable coming through the wall and the old Sky cable. My wife's been telling me to get rid of the old one for ages. Today she started going on and on about. So I did. I cut the wrong bloody one.
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    Where's my ram?

    Hi I bought a 2gb sodimm to boost my lappy up from 2gb. The computer sees the new ram Says 4gb installed ( 2.75gb usable) What's that all about?
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    Dandruff

    Silly thread really, but has anyone else noticed that you don't see people with dandruff anymore. Used to be rampant a few years ago.
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    Hard Drive Probs

    I acquired an old lappy for my granddaughter (she's only 5 so nothing special, just something to play with) Anyway I used 'Qpart' to format the drive and all seemed ok. I booted from a Windows XP disk and all went well until the legend ' starting windows' appeared Then this message popped up '...
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    No freeview

    Hi pilgrims My son has 2 TV's, both have freeview built in. He has Sky There are 2 aerials on the roof one feeds the sitting room and the other feeds a room at front. Both aerials face opposite directions (as do all the other houses in the road) He wants to tune in Freeview on both his TV's to...
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    Poor Baby

    These are very close relatives of mine. Shameful Baby almost died during two-hour ambulance wait | This is Essex
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    Phone Unlocking Unlocking attempts

    Hi All Happy christmas My wife bought a Samsung E1170 quite a while ago from Asda, only £15 including £10 credit. Unfortunately Asda use Vodafone which doesn't work in my house. So I discarded it to the cupboard. I came across it Friday and bought an online unlock code for £4. I got the code by...
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    Shameful Waste

    I was in Sainsburys Cafe yesterday (Sunday) just before closing time. I bought a couple of coffees and a cake. About ten minutes later the store was due to close. The girl who made my coffee proceeded to count all the cakes and made a note of them. I was flabbergasted when she then brought out a...
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    Seeing Double

    Strange thing today. If I'm home I watch the BBC quiz 'Pointless' Today there was a woman contestant called 'Sharon' I flicked over channels (yea, bad habit) and 'The Chase' was on ITV. That woman 'Sharon' was on that as well. What's the chances of both programs with the same contestant being...
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    Sky freezes

    Hi pilgrims I've got Sly. The problem is when it rains the signal disappears. I didn't bother about it up til last month because I just switched to analogue. Now they turned off the analogue signal I'm buggered. Any advice as to whats happening when it rains. I've got a dish alignment set but...
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